Increase your industry exposure, maximize your ROI, generate new leads and maintain your relationship through sponsoring the Plastics Recycling Conference.
The Plastics Recycling Conference is the must-attend conference of the industry. The 2010 conference held last March in Austin, Texas, attracted a record 950 attendees from 16 countries. The tradeshow floor had over 90 exhibitors.
More than ever, it is important not to lose personal contact with your clients and prospects. The conference offers array of sponsorship, exhibiting and advertising options that provide your organizations with a cost-effective way to promote your products and services, establish your brand, build new business relationship and secure your position as a leader in the industry. Sponsorship is the perfect opportunity to reach industry decision makers, including product manufacturers, plastics generators, federal, state and local government officials, trade association leaders, plastics processors, and buyers of polymer materials all in one location.
We have established several sponsorship levels and exhibit opportunities, with extensive benefits designed to complement your strategic marketing objectives. Plastics Recycling Conference looks forward to the opportunity to partner with you and showcase your organization.
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Platinum Sponsors |
American Chemistry CouncilArlington, Virginia |
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| The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Plastics Division represents the leading plastics resin manufacturers in the United States. ACC conducts research on recycling studies for plastics packaging and plastic bags and film, LCI's on the major virgin and recycled resins, and provides technical, educational and marketing assistance to state and local officials, businesses and customer groups. The Plastics Division sponsors programs that increase plastics recycling through implementation of sustainable and efficient recycling programs. The association's plastics websites include www.americanchemistry.com/plastics, www.plasticbagrecycling.org and www.allplasticbottles.org. | |
Association of Postconsumer Plastic RecyclersWashington, D.C. |
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| The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers represents companies who acquire, reprocess and sell the byproduct of more than 90 percent of the post-consumer plastic processing capacity in the United States, Canada and Mexico. APR's membership includes numerous recycling companies, consumer product companies, equipment manufacturers and organizations committed to plastics recycling. APR advocates the recycling of all postconsumer containers. | |
Perpetual Recycling SolutionsRichmond, Indiana |
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| Perpetual Recycling Solutions is a high-quality manufacturer of post-consumer recycled PET resin, which currently serves the plastic packaging industry from its New York location. The company will open a landmark, state-of-the-art facility in Richmond, Indiana in August 2011, and has capacity to produce 110,000,000 pounds annually of FDA-approved RPET flake. Perpetual Recycling Solutions possesses multiple "Letters of Non-Objection"("LNO") from regulatory agencies in the United States and Canada. As a result, the company partners with industry to create sustainable packaging that is suitable for direct-contact plastic food packaging. Perpetual Recycling Solutions is committed to being a good community neighbor. Its facility in Richmond features an innovative education center, open to area students and industry to learn about plastics recycling. Perpetual Recycling Solutions offers high-quality, innovative, sustainable products, and is committed to impacting the community and environment for the long-term. | |
Resource Recycling, Inc.Portland, Oregon |
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| Resource Recycling, Inc. is the publisher of Resource Recycling, E-Scrap News and Plastics Recycling Update, and is the primary sponsor of the Resource Recycling Conference; E-Scrap Conference; and Plastics Recycling Conference. | |
SDS LogisticsNationwide |
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| SDS Logistics Services manages customers truckload shipments, including drop-trailer programs, from coast-to-coast. SDS Logistics uses the latest in tracking technology, communications and experience to manage material accurately and efficiently. E-Mail quickquote@sdslogistics.com for rates and service information. | |
Gold Sponsors |
Avangard InnovativeHouston, Texas |
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| Avangard is a premier sustainable solutions provider, with branch offices and operating plants located around the world. Avangard Innovative works closely with clients to provide solutions and services that help achieve their social and environmental goals. In addition to being one of the largest recyclers in North America, Avangard Innovative's core services include: recycling solutions, processing/recycling facilities, equipment solutions, environmental and industrial services, resind distribution and sustainable products. | |
Husky Injection Molding SystemsBolton, Ontario |
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| Husky Injection Molding Systems is a global supplier of injection-molding equipment and services. Customers use Husky equipment to manufacture a wide range of products in the packaging, technical and automotive industries. | |
KW Plastics RecyclingTroy, Alabama |
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| KW Plastics is the world's largest plastics recycler. KW Plastics Recycling, a division of KW Plastics, buys quality HDPE (Blow-mold and injection-grade) and PP scrap for washing and reprocessing. KWPR supplies premium, post-consumer resins for the packaging, agraculture and automotive industries. Since 1992, KWPR has continually expanded extruder and silo storage capacity to meet growing market demand. Today, KW is highly regarded for its extensive capacity, commitment to quality, consistent growth and exceptional customer service. | |
PepsiCoNew York, New York |
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| PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages. Its products can be found in nearly 200 countries around the globe. PepsiCo is committed to minimizing the impact its business has on the environment with methods that are socially responsible, scientifically based and economically sound. After more than a decade of action, PepsiCo continues to apply solutions to challenges, such as energy efficiency, water conservation and responsible packaging innovation, which are pioneered in one part of its business and then taken to scale throughout its global network. PepsiCo continuously improves its environmental programs and explores inventive solutions to the world's challenges. They operate in a way that minimizes the company's environmental footprint with the goal of reaching a net-neutral impact. PepsiCo's focusted its environmental sustainability efforts on water, energy, packaging and solid waste - areas where they can make the biggest impact. | |
Trex Company, Inc.Winchester, Virginia |
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| Trex Company turns millions of pounds of recycled and reclaimed plastic and waste wood each year into Trex products. Most of these raw materials come from recovered plastic grocery bags, plastic film and waste wood fiber. Trex Company purchases approximately 300 million pounds of used polyethylene and an equal amount of hardwood sawdust each year, materials that would normally end up in a landfill. The company recycles over 1.3 billion grocery retail bags annually. | |
Silver Sponsors |
America Chung Nam, Inc.City of Industry, California |
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| Over the past six consecutive years, America Chung Nam has been ranked the number one, and largest exporter according to the U.S. Journal of commerce. Aside from fibers, ACN handles a wide range of post-consumer and post-industrial plastic materials. As the leading exporter, ACN offers our suppliers, vendors and customers fair and competitive pricings, responsive service and solid financial resources. | |
Amut S.p.A.Richmond Hill, Ontario |
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| AMUT is one of the world's leading machinery manufacturing companies, focusing on the complete extrusion machinery lines, thermoforming equipment and recycling technologies. Founded in 1958, AMUT's patented recycling technology received the Global Plastic Environmental - Enabling Technology award in 2006 from the SPE. Their newest North American PET recycling plant is a bottle-to-bottle plant producing 3,000 kilograms per hour of the dirtiest reclaimed PET from landfills! For more details on this exciting development, contact Anthony Georges at (416) 939-4732 or a.georges@amutnorthamerica.com. | |
ArrowstarDalton, Georgia |
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B+B Anlagenbau GmbH / BeznerSpartanburg, South Carolina |
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| Zimmer America Corporation has partnered with B+B and Bezner, two leading manufacturers of waste management, sorting and recycling equipment. Together, with B+B and Bezner, Zimmer can supply quality equipment and solutions for plastic fine sorting plants, shredding into flakes and high efficiency washing systems. In addition, B+B has many years of experience in coordinating and being a system provider for FDA food-grade material production plants. | |
Bepex International LLCMinneapolis, Minnisota |
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| Since 1906 Bepex has been a global provider of process equipment and process development solutions for the chemical, food, and polymer industries. With over 35 years in continuous SSP processing, the company has developed the BePET recycled PET flake decontamination system for bottle-to-bottle applications. This patent-pending system produces FDA-LNO recycled flake while providing flexible IV adjustment without sacrificing throughput. The modular component design allows for easy integration into existing operations with average installed costs substantially less than competitive systems | |
Blue Ridge Plastics, an ITW CompanyEden, North Carolina |
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| Blue Ridge Plastics, an ITW Company, is dedicated to the tough jobs in plastic recycling and is ready to serve your recycling needs. We shred, grind, and wash plastic scrap to produce clean, dry "extruder ready" regrind at our 140,000 sq. ft. plant located in Eden, NC. We provide recycled materials for pipe, plastic lumber, sheet and profile extrusion, compounding, rotational molding and injection molding applications. Toll Services include grinding, washing, sorting, packaging, bailing & warehousing. | |
Buhler GroupStockton, California |
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| Buhler is a technology group and global market leader in food processing, chemical process engineering, and die casting. Buhler supplies the plastics industry with customer-orientated continuous-operation systems for heating, cooling, crystallization, drying, solid-state polycondensation (SSP) and optical sorting. Please visit Buhler's booth to learn how they can add value to your plastics products. | |
CarbonLITE IndustriesRiverside, California |
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| CarbonLITE Industries, currently under construction, will have its manufacturing operations in a new 220,000 square foot building in Riverside, Califronia operation by 3rd quarter 2011. The facility will produce FDA-approved bottle-grade PET flakes and pellets from Post Consumer PET bottles, collected through curbside programs and deposit collection centers. The used bottles will arrive at the facility in bales, segregated by type and color, washed, and chopped into flake material. The flakes will go through a decontamination process to satisfy strict FDA requirements. CarbonLITE will also produce pellets from the purified flakes. The end product, in both flake and pellet form are then sold to be used as a direct substitute for virgin material in all PET applications including food-grade packaging. | |
Clear Path Recycling, LLCFayetteville, North Carolina |
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| Clear Path Recycling, LLC, located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is the second-largest domestic processor of post-consumer PET baled containers in North America. This new joint venture company between Shaw Industries and DAK Americas will convert recycled post-consumer PET bales into clean rPET flake. Each parent will utilize a portion of rPET flake in their respective product offerings: carpet and virgin resin. For more information about CPR and RPET sales visit www.clearpathreycling.com or call 1-877-387-3738. | |
Cumberland RecyclingNew Berlin, Wisconsin |
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| Since its founding over 68 years ago, Cumberland has adhered to a design philosophy that requires mass, durability and longevity. The company has earned the trust of valued clients, and has taken all measures needed to set itself apart from others in the industry. Over the years, Cumberland has become widely recognized as industry and design leaders in the size-reduction industry, providing quality products, engineered solutions and unparalleled aftermarket support. | |
Custom Polymers PET, LLCAthens, Alabama |
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| Custom Polymers PET, LLC is a premier processor of post-consumer and post-industrial PET. Working directly with material recovery facilities and manufacturers, the company adds value to scrap while diverting millions of pounds of plastic from landfills. Custom Polymers PET processes more than 180 million pounds of PET annually, including sorting, grinding, washing and pelletizing in-house and packages its flake and pellet in supersacks, gaylords, bulk trucks, and bulk rail. Contact them at www.CustomPolymersPET.com, or at 704.790.1320. | |
Custom Polymers, Inc.Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Custom Polymers, Inc. is the 4th largest recycler and reprocessor of all types and forms of post-industrial and post-consumer plastic scrap in North America. Its team of experienced professionals, solid financial base, and dedication to customer service have helped Custom Polymers develop and maintain long-term partnerships with both buyers and suppliers worldwide. Contact them at 704.790.1317 or online at www.CustomPolymers.com to experience the difference. | |
Dadu Group Co. Ltd.Japan |
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| Dadu Group Co. Ltd., located in Tokyo , is the largest recycler and reprocessor of all types and forms of plastic imports and exports in Japan . With nearly 20 years of experience, the company has 9 facilities in Japan , and 7 facilities in China , Singapore and Malaysia. Dadu Group Co. Ltd., specializes in offering complete systems from scrap to pellet and provide customers all over the world. | |
Davis-Standard, LLCPawcatuck, Connecticut |
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| Davis-Standard, LLC supplies a complete line of reclaim extruders and systems for post industrial and post consumer processing. This includes reprocessing capabilities for low and high bulk density scrap, flake, chip, fiber, foam and film, plus solutions for heavy volatiles and moisture. We offer complete systems from scrap to pellet for reprocessing and reclaim under the Davis-Standard and Merritt Extrusion brands. Systems include Ram Stuffer, Scrapper®, Polycycle®, Dual-Diameter and Cascade extrusion. | |
Dorstener Wire Tech, Inc.Spring, Texas |
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| Dorstener Wire Tech stocks a full range of woven wire cloth, welded wire mesh, and stitching wire products for fast efficient service. Its nationwide service centers offer many benefits such as local sales and service, local stocking programs, and reduced freight rates. Dorstener's manufacturing facilities have the capacity to produce custom products in small or large quantities to help meet your requirements. | |
Envision PlasticsReidsville, North Carolina |
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| Envision Plastics is a national supplier and producer of recycled high-quality HDPE resins. Envision Plastics is proud to offer EcoPrime, the first FDA approved HDPE resin meeting the standards for packaging all manner of food grade items to include milk, juice, vitamins, personal care products, etc. Envision Plastics' PRISMA technology provides color-specific resins made to the customers' specifications. Envision Plastics is located on both coasts, with nationwide shipping capabilities. | |
EREMA North America, Inc.Ipswich, Massachusetts |
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| EREMA North America is a world leader in supplying plastics recycling equipment, screen changers, PET bottle-to-bottle lines and PET flakes-to-sheets lines. | |
Extrusion Control + Supply, Inc.Waukesha, Wisconsin |
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| Extrusion Control and Supply, Inc. is a complete source of MRO products for the polymer extrusion industry. From its three North American locations, the company successfully supports over 1,000 customers worldwide. Extrusion Control and Supply's focus on polymer extrusion processes and its complete product line, including in-house extruder screen and pack manufacturing, gives customers standard setting service levels and reliable products. | |
Gala Industries, Inc.Eagle Rock, Virginia |
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| Gala provides underwater pelletizing systems for post industrial recycling by converting recovered scrap back into pellet form. Gala centrifugal dryers are used in large post-consumer scrap conversion, downstream of size reduction equipment and the wash and dry process. Gala's CPT(c) process complements the direct crystallization process, which avoids the use of expensive pre-crystalllizers and crystallizers prior to taking PET pellets into a SSP process or other downstream after-treatment processes. | |
Genius Group - Fiber USA Corp.New York, New York |
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| Since 1979, Genius Group has developed into a manufacturing enterprise with nine branches and nearly 5,000 employees. As the biggest rPET importing end-user in China, the company's current rPET consumption is about 10,000 metric tons per month. Fiber USA Corp. is Genius Group's New York branch, with flexible and on-time payment, competitive price, and its own AQSIQ and import license for the purchase of rPET, the company boasts satisfied customers around the world. | |
HyperplasticsD.F., Mexico |
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| As a top recycler and trader of almost any polymer (PP, LDPE, HDPE, PET, PS, PC, PA, ABS) Hyperplastics has several grinding / baling facilities strategically located throughout Mexican territory and two recycling plants in which it recycles PE, PP and PS. Hyperplastics' material is being shipped all over the world! | |
Jelliff Corp.Hickory, North Carolina |
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| Jelliff's state-of-the-art facility, located in Hickory, North Carolina, manufactures and supplies all types of extruder pack screens used by the plastic recycling industry. These screens are available in both plain steel and stainless steel alloys. Jelliff can supply many various diameter screens as single or spot-weld packs. The company also produces all types of wire cloth cylinders and aluminum bound packs, made to customer specifications. | |
Jordan Reduction SolutionsBirmingham, Alabama |
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| Jordan Reduction Solutions, OEM successor to Mitts and Merrill, leads the way as one of the oldest established manufacturers of industrial shredders, grinders and granulators in the U.S. With over 150 years of continuous service, JRS has supplied quality size reduction equipment to various facilities processing plastic, rubber, paper, metals and other diverse materials. Contact them today and let them show you how a JRS designed system can meet your most demanding material processing needs. | |
Keller and Heckman, LLPWashington, D.C. |
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| Keller and Heckman serves its clients by combining science and technical expertise with specialized legal talent. With over four decades of providing focused legal council to businesses and opportunities to help write the regulations and affect governmental policies that industries must follow, Keller and Heckman makes it possible for clients to move their businesses forward. | |
Kice Industries, Inc.Wichita, Kansas |
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| Kice Industries, Inc. manufacturers a complete line of bulk handling equipment, including Kice Multi-Aspirators for separating dust, fines, labels, angel hair, and snakeskins from virgin and regrind plastics, such as PVC, PET bottle flake, ABS, HIPS and PE. The Kice-Multi-Aspirator will de-dust all types of plastic regrind and/or pellets. Other Kice equipment includes granulator evacuation systems, dust control equipment, vacuum and/or positive pressure conveying systems, and railcar loading/unloading systems. | |
LMS/AptarMidland, Michigan |
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| LMS, a division of Aptargroup Inc., is a leader in Liquid Silicone Injection Molding to produce elastomeric valves for a variety of industries. LMS' SimpliSqueeze valve delivers ultimate convenience by providing a superior flow-control dispensing system for packaging applications. Aptargroup is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative dispensing systems for the fragrance/cosmetic, personal care, pharmaceutical, household and food/beverage markets. Committed to sustainability, LMS and Aptar are pleased to announce the introduction of Swimming Silicone valves to the food and beverage markets. | |
Marglen IndustriesRome, Georgia |
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| Marglen Industries is a Georgia manufacturer that produces a PET pellet and polyester textile fiber, both of which are made from 100 percent post-consumer recycled PET. Marglen offers a 100 percent post-consumer rPET pellet that can be used in both food grade and non-food grade applications. Marglen has a letter of Non Objection from the FDA that approves its process for manufacturing a food grade resin. Marglen also manufactures a 100 percent post-consumer staple fiber used in carpet, fiber fill, needle punch non-wovens, and other textile products. | |
Mohawk Industries, Inc.Summerville, Georgia |
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| Mohawk Industries, Inc., the world's largest floor covering company, is also the largest domestic PET recycler in the USA. Mohawk purchases over 200 million pounds of recycled PET containers per year from curbside programs, and turns them into EverStrand carpet fiber. | |
Nexcycle Plastics, Inc.Brampton, Ontario |
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| For over 25 years NexCycle Plastics Inc. (NPI) has held a leading position as a quality, high volume recycler of post industrial plastic scrap materials. An ISO certified company located in Brampton, Ontario, with 100 million pounds of production capacity, NexCycle services a network of manufacturers across North America. Our reputation amongst customers and suppliers is one of integrity, longevity, volume and experience. In response to customer demand the company has developed post consumer content resins and continue to expand our offerings in this arena. NexCycle Plastics is a division of Strategic Materials. | |
Omni Resource Recovery, Inc.Colton, California |
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| Omni Resource Recovery, Inc. is a vertically-integrated full-service recycler, processor, and manufacturer with eight strategically located U.S. processing plants. Omni can accept various grades of recyclables, mixed loads, full or partial truckloads, in virtually any form and volume throughout the U.S. In addition, Omni generates an ongoing supply of high quality regrind and reprocessed pellets of HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, MDPE, PET, PC, & PP. We have the capability to compound or customize materials and a recycling program to meet your specific requirements. | |
PARC CorporationRomeoville, Illinois |
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| PARC Corporation has offices in the U.S. and China and is headquartered in Romeoville, IL. PARC has earned a solid reputation as an industry leader in plastics recycling and markets hundred millions pounds of various types of recovered plastic per year. The company's goal is to make recycling as easy as possible by providing custom solutions and maximizing cost savings for clients. By using its strong market presence worldwide PARC has developed markets for difficult or impossible to recycle plastic materials. In every way PARC is a full service recycler. PARC Corporation is registered minority/women owned business and a SPI member. | |
Pellenc St. America, Inc.Concord, California |
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| Pellenc Selective Technologies is a manufacturer of automatic sorting equipment intended for such household and industrial wastes as plastic, paper, cardboard, electronic waste, and building and demolition material. Designed to offer effective processing and high productivity levels, Pellenc's units utilize a variety of technologies, including spectrometric analysis, artificial vision and multi-spectral image analysis, and new technologies are shortly forthcoming. In only seven years of existence, over 400 Pellenc ST machines have been installed in 35 countries globally. | |
Pelletron CorporationLancaster, Pennsylvania |
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| Pelletron provides DeDusting and Pneumatic Conveying solutions for the Plastics Industry. Pelletron's DeDuster® remove dust and other contaminants from regrind. The cleaned product is as good as virgin product and can be mixed with virgin product for further processing. DeDuster® are available in various sizes for capacities from 10lbs/h up to 200000 lbs/h. DeDuster® can be combined directly with a grinder, installed on an IMM, a Dryer or under a silo or hopper. | |
Petoskey PlasticsPetoskey, Michigan |
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| Since 1970, Petoskey Plastics has been an innovator in manufacturing blown plastic film and bags that are engineered for performance. Petoskey is an industry leader supplying the automotive, recycling, food, retail, packaging and construction industries with engineered solutions that meet specific needs. The company first began recycling in 1978, and have never stopped thinking green. The compnay's Greencore Solutions closed loop recycling program takes post-use plastic out of the waste stream and puts it back into customer products. Thanks to its exclusive, multi-layer manufacturing process, Petoskey is supplying its customers with high-performance polyethylene products that are good for them and good for the environment. | |
Plastrec, Inc.Joliette, Quebec |
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| Plastrec is a PET recycler, processing over 75 million pounds a year. Founded in 1992, Plastrec transforms both post-industrial and post-consumer PET bottles, purchased mainly from municipal curbside programs in Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. | |
Recyc RPM Inc.Saint-Damien, Quebec |
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| Recyc RPM Inc. has excelled in the plastic recycling business since its foundation in 1989 and is the oldest post-consumer plastics recycling company in Québec. Backed by cutting edge technology and surrounded by a team of experienced professionals, Recyc RPM Inc. specializes in the transformation of polymers by using grinding, washing, pelletizing, compounding and specialized blending processes. Recyc RPM Inc. provides distribution services of virgin and wide specs resin to hundreds of satisfied customers across North America. The company commits to the success of its clients by being an international leader in the distribution and transformation of plastic resin. | |
S+S Inspection, Inc.Niagara Falls, New York |
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| S+S is one of the world's leading manufacturers and developers of inspection, separation and sorting systems. S+S systems are used in process, packaging, and production lines throughout industry and in the specialized preparation of materials for recycling. The company's customers operate in a wide variety of industries, from food, pharmaceuticals and plastics to wood, glass and recycling. | |
Satake USA Inc.Houston, Texas |
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| Satake USA designs, develops and markets sophisticated food processing and optical-sorting equipment for businesses around the world. | |
Sigma Recycling, Inc. / Gemini Corporation N.V.Norcross, Georgia |
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| Sigma Recycling, Inc. and associated company Gemini Corporation NV have more than 100 professionals around the world to add value to their worldwide trading operations. Sigma's main divisions are recyclable plastics, shredded steel and wood. The company operates worldwide including China, India, Vietnam, UAE, U.K., U.S.A, and Europe. Sigma re-invented trading and is committed to meet customer requirements and enhancing customer satisfaction through continual improvement of our services and quality management. | |
Sorema Division of PrevieroAnzano Del Parco, Italy |
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| Widely Recognized as a world-wide leader in plastics washing systems, Sorema systems have been integral to many of the "firsts" in plastics recycling. Sorema has built over 700 systems since 1976 and holds over 10 US patents. Sorema systems are known to produce the best quality product at the highest, most consistent throughputs and the lowest operating costs. For additional information please email sales@previero.it or ccozart@c-sense-solutions.com | |
Tradepro, Inc.Miami, Florida |
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| Tradepro Inc. is an established importer, exporter, and domestic supplier of plastic materials in both raw and finished product forms. With over 20 years of experience and 5 locations worldwide, Tradepro specializes in the recycling, sale and shipping of plastic scrap materials. Offering an extensive portfolio featuring commodity grades such as LDPE, HDPE, PET, PP, PVC, PS, HIPS, GPPS and engineering grades including Nylon 6, Nylon 6/6, ABS, PC, PC/ABS, PMMA, among others. | |
UNISENSOR GmbHKarlsruhe, Germany |
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| UNISENSOR specializes in sensor system technology for the recycling and bottling industries and industrial gas suppliers. For sorting applications, eg. in the field of PET bottle-to-bottle recycling, UNISENSOR provides a unique, patented technology based on ultra-high-speed laser spectroscopy, thus overcoming the limitations of conventional sorting methods. UNISENSOR's new technology is capable of addressing sorting issues that were once considered impossible to resolve. These issues include the detection of silicone, PVC, blends, PLA and even black plastics in the process stream. | |
United Resource Recovery Corp.Spartanburg, South Carolina |
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| URRC offers PET recycling technology, licenses and engineering globally for the unique URRC process which provides food grade postconsumer PET resin from any source without the need for pelletizing or SSP. NURRRC, LLC the PET recycling joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and URRC located in Spartanburg, SC provides 100% post consumer curbside sourced PET resin to PAckaging companies throughout the US and Canada while expanding capacity to 100MMlbs per year. Through it's subsidiary UDMS, URRC also provides silver PET film recycling services. | |
Waste Management Recycle AmericaHouston, Texas |
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| Waste Management currently handles eight million tons of commodities annually through a nationwide network of recycling facilities. Waste Management purchases virtually any type of recyclable commodity: Office paper, newspaper, cardboard, electronics, metals, plastics (post-consumer and post-industrial), and even the most challenging materials. | |
Bronze Sponsors |
Alloy Exchange, Inc.Rockford, Michigan |
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| For over a quarter century, Alloy Exchange has been a full-service post-industrial recycling center, and a cost-saving resource for top-quality reprocessed ABS and PC/ABS plastic. Created as a processing and trading company to handle chrome-plated material generated by local automotive companies, Alloy Exchange operates reprocessing facilities in Rockford, Michigan and Tiptonville, Tennessee and develops products and services with two things in mind: Environmental friendliness and increasing your company's bottom line. | |
Flow PolymersCleveland, Ohio |
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| Flow Polymers was established in 1984 as a manufacturer of specialty processing aids and homogenizing agents for the tire industry. Today, from two locations (Cleveland, Ohio and Stratford, Connecticut), The company serves over 2,000 customers worldwide in the tire; automotive, industrial products, wire and cable and plastics industries with a broad range of proprietary and custom chemical dispersions and process aids. Flow Polymers' focus is the development and manufacture of unique products that meet our customers' current and future needs. New products and initiatives drive the company's market and add value to its customers' portfolio. | |
FMS LogisticsThe Woodlands, Texas |
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| Founded in 1897 in Hamburg, FMS continues to offer the complete scope of modern transportation. Clients benefit from the experience and face-to-face contact of a medium-sized, long-established logistics specialist - and at the same time from the favorable conditions of a large company. FMS has excellent connections with carriers and partners throughout the world and has recently strengthened its teams, extended business units and continue to upgrade the standard of its IT systems. | |
Parallel ProductsNew Bedford, Massachusetts |
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| For over 20 years, Parallel Products has pioneered the development of innovative technologies for the processing of food and beverage wastes. They have created cost-effective and environmentally-sound solutions for both its customers and communities. By-products that were previously considered discards now become useful resources. | |
Polar BeveragesWorcester, Massachusetts |
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| Polar Beverages, the country's largest independent soft-drink bottler, is a fourth-generation, family-owend business that traces its roots back to 1882. Polar Beverages is the largest privately held, independent-bottling company in the country today. Though it has changed in size, Polar is proud that it still holds on to the same values as its previous generations, including the tradition of providing the highest quality beverages available at affordable prices. | |
Schupan RecyclingKalamazoo, Michigan |
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| Schupan Recycling, a division of Schupan & Sons, Inc., has over two decades experience as Michigan's premier beverage container processor and materials marketer. Schupan's state-of-the-art Michigan facilities process hundreds of millions of pounds of PET, aluminum cans and glass bottles per year. When it comes to PET recycling, Schupan Recycling is proud of its track record of providing the industry's highest quality of processed PET. | |
Talco PlasticsCorona, California |
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| A leading supplier of custom compounded commodity, engineering and post-consumer resin, Talco Plastic's recycling services maintain the largest and most versatile inventory of quality recycled plastics in the Western United States. | |
TomraShelton, Connecticut |
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| The story of Tomra begins with innovation. Creating the world's first automated bottle return machine in 1872, Tomra's approach was embraced by customers looking for more efficient ways to recycle used beverage containers. As recycling challenges have grown, Tomra has consistently responded with innovative, reliable and cost-effective solutions. Today, Tomra offers a wide range of advanced systems for collecting, sorting and compacting materials within diverse settings, playing a leading role in helping the world recycle. | |
UltrePET, LLCAlbany, New York |
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| UltrePET recycles post-consumer PET bottles into high-end flake and melt-filtered pellet for both food and non-food grade applications, sucha s bottles, sheet, engineering resins, strapping and fine denier fiber. | |
UNM International LimitedHong Kong |
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| UNM International recycles post-consumer, post-industrial, engineering grade plastics and off spec/grade pellets, electronics and metal scraps from the Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Middle East and United States. UNM has established lasting partnerships with end users in China and recycles over 100,000 metric tons of recyclables annually. | |
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